Pin-wheel.



No. 665,850. Patented 1an. s, lam'. w. J. Boom PIN WHEEL. l (Appuminn med Peb. 15, 1897.)

(No Moldel.)

\L l ugento@ 7a a V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM JAMES BOOTH, vOF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR TO MARY SOMERVILLE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PINI-WHEEL.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,850, dated January 85 1901 Application filed February 15, 1897. Serial No. 623,438- (No model.) l

. To all whom it may' concern,.-

' a specification.

This invention relates te the class of toys or puzzles in which a whirling motion is given to'a wheel or similar body.`

A The object of the invention is to produce such'a toy or puzzle in which the revolution is imparted in a new manner and by novel means, the force for causing the revolution being produced primarily by the rubbing of one body upon another. y In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the support or handle and a revolving body. Fig. 1a is a view of av rubber used in imparting power to cause the revolution of the body carried by the support or handle.

Fig. 2 illustrates a preferred mode of holding the device and applying the rubber to ,revolve the body from right to left. Fig. 3 is an illustration of an application of the rubber to cause a revolution of the body from left to v right, and Fig. 4 is a modification illustrating a multiplication of revolving bodies.

1 designates a support or handle formed, preferably, with a part 2 to be grasped to hold the support or handle', a part 3, having beads or corrugations, and a part 4, adapted to re ceive a pin or other axis 5 upon which the revolving body 6 may turn.

7 illustrates a rubber, preferably a piece of hard wood.

The rubber is shown with cut-away portions having curved surfaces as a convenient form of rubber to be used.

If the support or handle 1 be grasped, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and the rubber be held as there shown and drawn back and forth p upon the beads or corrugations while the finger of the hand holding the rubber presses -upon the side of the support or handle, the

body on the axis/at the end of the support orhandle will ,revolve from right to left,while,

on the other hand, if the rubber be applied as shown in Fig. 3, with the finger of the hand holding the rubber pressing upon the'lefthand side of the support or handle, the body will revolve from left to right. A partial revolu tion may be had without the auxiliary rubber by a like manipulation of two fingers. I have also caused changes in rotation by using the rubber alone first on one side and then on the other. I have also caused all the disks or other bodies inas many of the toys as can be held by a hand to revolve by merely rubbing one of the handles.

There are, in fact, within the scope of my invention many interesting variations of this novel application of force, so that my invention in addition to being an interesting toy for young people presents a difficult problem `for adults.A It may be` used as a puzzle by deftly manipulating the rubber and then asking oneunfamiliar with the device to produce the same effect. well to cause one revolution by using the right hand and the next revolution by using the left hand, the fingers passing upon opposite sides ofthe support or handle in the different experiments or illustrations.

It is obvious that the handle may be modified in various ways-as,for exa|nple,by using some such design as an alligator or other animal with roughened back or in any manner that fancy or skill may suggest. I may also use as a revolving body a chromoscope, Maltese cross, or any of the optical illusions ,or common devices generallyl used in revolving toys, and I may multiply the number of disks upon the pin or axis 5 or place disks upon 'branches 8, as shown in Fig. 4, in which con- In such a case it may be struct-ion all the bodies or disks will revolve when the handle is rubbed.

I have supposed that the revolution of the body is produced by the resultant of opposing vibrations acting through the axis upon the body, delivering repeated strokes with great rapidity; but I do not state this theory of operation as conclusive or as being any feature of the invention herein described and claimed. I

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. The combination with a support or handle of a body adapted to revolve upon the support or handle, and means comprising a rubber for imparting vibrations to the support or handle to cause the body to revolve, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a support or handle IOO having salient points upon its surface, a body adapted to revolve upon the support or handle, and means comprising a rubber adapted to be reciprocated upon the support or haudle, to cause thebody to revolve, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a support or handle Y a bo'dy adapted to revolve upon the support or handle, a rubber of comparatively hard material adapted to be rubbed upon the support or handle to canse -the body to revolve, substantially as described.

5'. In a toy pin-Wheel, the combination of a handle having corrugations, a pin in One end of the handle, a wheel bearing loosely on the pin, and a rubber adapted to be reciprocated over the corrugations of the handle, substantially as described.

6. In a toy pin-wheel, the combination of a handle having a series of parallel grooves forming intermediatebeads, a wheel, a pin in one end of the handle formingafree axis for the Wheel, and a rubber adapted to act upon the beads to cause the wheel to revolve, substantially as described.

WILLIAM ,JAMES BOOTH.

Witnesses:

WM. JOHNSON, A. T. S'rErTon. 

